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Linux suffers from a lot of unaddressed security problems. (programming.dev)

submitted 1 day ago by Pro@programming.dev to c/linux@programming.dev

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Not all distros ship SELinux and the ones that do, don't actually configure it securely.
New users are expected to keep copying and pasting commands from their browsers to their terminal which compromises some Linux security defenses.
KDE, GNOME and Sway are the only functional Desktop Environments/Window Managers that support Wayland all, while the Other DEs are not even close to shipping with Wayland.
Most if not all of the Linux Distros in 2025 ship with Grub bootloader, which suffers from a lot of problems, instead of using the bootloaders that does not support BIOS and will improve the reliability of booting and provide a more stable experience.

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[–] sudo@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How is limited wayland support security issue?

[–] who@feddit.org 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

They might be referring to the fact that X11 allows things like user input snooping and screen scraping between processes. It's a legitimate problem, and I think Wayland aims to address at least part of it...

...but it's impossible to tell what the author understands of issues like this, since their list of complaints is scattered, shallow, and poorly articulated. I think they would do better to open a discussion and start learning from it, rather than making a broad critical declaration to everyone here without supporting it.